IGNATIUS: Opportunity, peril over Iran

12:16 PM,
Sep. 20, 2013

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DAVID IGNATIUS

For a weakened but still ambitious President Obama, the biggest foreign-policy opportunity and danger of his presidency rolls into New York next week with the arrival of Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani.

The Iranians have been signaling through various channels that they are ready to discuss a broad security framework - one that would include concessions to limit Iran's nuclear program short of producing weapons, but would also recognize that the country has interests in Syria and other parts of the Middle East.